1200 THE COLLIERY GUARDIAN June 14, 1918. CONTENTS. Editorial Articles :— Page The New Fuel Order......................... 1201 Compulsory Continuation Schools ............. 1201 Articles :— Terrestrial Magnetism in Relation to Mine Surveying................................ 1193 Miners" Wages and Coal Prices ............. 1194 Method for the Combustion of Brown Coal..... 1194 Birthday Honours : Second List............. 1196 Repairing a Small Circular Shaft .......... 1196 The American Coal Trade ................... 1197 Flow of Air through Small Coal and Other Broken Material ................................ 1198 Mining Industry and Military Service....... 1199 Miners" War Wage .......................... 1199 South Wales Mining Timber Trade ........... 1205 Works Committees........................... 1205 Mean Magnetic Declination.................. 1206 Obituary .................................. 1206 The Effects of Dust Inhalation ............ 1207 Labour and Wages .......................... 1209 The Freight Market ........................ 1210 Open Contracts ............................ 1212 Government Publications.................... 1212 Publications Received ..................... 1212 Abstracts of Patent Specifications Recently Acptd. 1212 New Patents Connected with the Coal and Iron Trades .................................. 1214 Letters to the Editors:—Magnetic Declination ... 1197 Reports of Meetings:— Manchester Geological and Mining Society.... 1195 Institution of Mining Engineers ........... 1206 Mining Institute of Scotland .............. 1208 The Coal and Iron Trades ..................1202 —1205 The London Coal Trade ..................... 1202 The By-Products Trade ..................... 1205 The Tin-plate Trade........................ 1206 Current Science and Technology ................ 1199 Parliamentary Intelligence..................... 1199 Notes from the Coal Fields..................... 1208 Coal, Iron and Engineering Companies........... 1210 Miscellanea : — The Dunsmuir Collieries Case .............. 1194 Coal Trade Benevolent Association ......... 1196 Coal Controller on Fuel Rations............ 1197 Industrial and National Councils .......... 1199 Partnership Dissolved—Surface Workers’ Wages 1204 Cleveland Iron Prices and Wages ........... 1210 South African Coal Output—Whitley Committee and Arbitration ......................... 1212 Lignites in Murcia—Colliery Deputies and the Miners" Federation....................... 1214 (nsrtices for* ADVERTISEMENTS and PUBLICATION- 30 & 31, Furnival Street, Holborn, London, E.C. 4. Telegraphic Address—“Colliery Guardian, Fleet, London Telephone—1354 Holborn. CONTRACT ADVERTISEMENTS : Prices for SPECIAL POSITIONS on application. Prices for ORDINARY POSITIONS:— Single Column (3 inches wide) : For 52 insertions 3s. 9d. per insertion for each ” 13 ” 5s. 3d. ) meh in depth. Double Column (6 inches wide), double the above rates. Three Columns (9 inches wide), three times the above rates. Established 1866. PATENTS, DESIGNS, and TRADE MARKS. T ARRIS AND MILLS, Chartered Patent Agents, 34 and 35, HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON, W.C. 1. Telegraphic Address—“ Privilege, London.” Tel. No.—Holborn 2 €3. ARE YOU GETTING THE BEST OUT OF YOUR COAL 2 A “Lea” V. notch Recorder, by continuously measuring your Boiler Feed Water, would tell you and so help you to —; PREVENT WASTE. THE LEA RECORDER CO. LTD., Deansgate, MANCHESTER. ARCHIBALD BAIRD & SON LTD., HAMILTON. Telegrams—Excello. Telephone—No 57. X CIO jJUO Lit)-XIU iff. — Makers of — GUTTA PERCHA PUMP W BUCKETS, RINGS & WASHERS. AND ALL COLLIERY REQUIREMENTS. JOHU STANIAR & CO., Manchester, Eng. Wire Weavers & Metal Workers. Established over 100 Years. —------- EVERY REQUISITE. ------------------ GAUZES in Silk and Wire. BRUSHES in Bristle, Weed, Fibre or Steel, for every knowa make of Brush Machine. PERFORA TEO PL A TES in Iron, Steel, Zinc, Brass, Coppet GUAROS for Engines, Stores, Machines, Strapping, Lifts, &c. AWARD MEDALS—Japan-British 1910, Franco-British 1908. Telegraph—" Gauze, Manchester.” Telephone—City 3806 ASSOCIATION OF PRIVATE OWNERS OF RAILWAY ROLLING STOCK. Formed in 1891 for the Protection of the Rights and Interests of Private Owners. Applications for particulars and terms of membership may be sent to the SECRETARY, Clarence Chambers,' Gloucester. The Oldest Diamond Drill Company. Established 1872. PORING for MINERALS. SPEED AND CERTAINTY. CYLINDRICAL “CORES.” THE AQUEOUS WORKS and DIAMOND ROCK-BORINQ CO. LTD. Cuild.*o o St., York Road, Lambeth, London, S.E. Besides numerous other Important Contracts, completed (in 18 y»7) the Deepest Boring in the United Kingdom to 3,500 ft. Great Experience in Boring for WATER. The U.M.S. LESSONS BY POST. The best Mining Education. Unapproachable Successes. 52 H.M. Inspectors are U.M.S. Men. — Syllabus free. — THE UNIVERSAL MINING SCHOOL «) 50, Connaught Road, Cardiff. Briquette Machinery Ltd., Charmouth Street, LEEDS. Machinery for Briquetting Peat, Lignite, Coke, Coal, Iron, Copper, Nickel, Cement; Also Sawdust, Waste Cereals, Offals, Sewage. PATENT COAL DRIER. YEADONS’ LATEST PATENTED BRIQUETTE MACHINERY, For Coal, Coke, Iron and other Ores. YEADON, SON & CO., Engineers, LEEDS, Have a World-wide Reputation, and 40 Years’ Experience. They have supplied MORE BRIQUETTE PLANTS than any other firm in this country. ARMYTAGE & JONES Ltd., SHEAF STREET, SHEFFIELD. RAILS. WAGONS. (For all purposes). (Coal & Ballast). Boiler Tanks. Points and Crossings. Buyers of all kinds Steel and Iron Scrap. THE Corlett Electrical Engineering Co. Id. T’phone— T’gram— 63 Wigan. “Corlett, Wigan.” Contracts Dept. - Ref. C.D. Manfg & Repairs Dept. - Ref. W.D. Stores Dept. - Ref. S.D. Liquid Starters, Starting Gear, Mining Switches and Distribution Gear, Armature Repairs. W.D. W. G. JENKINSON (ESTD. 1882), Chemical Plumber & Lead-Burner, Maker of every description of Lead=worK for Sulphate of Ammonia and By=Product Plant, Saturators, Coils and Ejectors. 43, EYRE STREET, SHEFFIELD. I I H ft 1/ ft A IA f O Orders on 7 days’ approval. II HU A uA If U HEANES TOOL Co. Sheffield GUARANTEED MATERIALS. INSULATING VARNISHES. WAGON PAINTS. W. W. Hill, Son & Wallace Ltd., Elton Street, Broughton Bridge, MANCHESTER. --- ESTABLISHED 1840. - Geo. N. Dixon & Co., 43, Casfle Street, Ltverpoof, Auctioneers and Valuers, COLLIERIES, Brickworks & Mining Plant. Bridse-sdpttent Friction Clutches & Hauling Installations A SPECIALITY _______SEE ADVERTISEMENT LAST ISSUE, PAGE 1175. Sole Makers— DAVID BRIDGE & CO. LTD. Haulage Works, CASTLETON, Manchester.. Stop Taking Risks! Highest Efficiency, Longest Service obtained by using only “CHEKKO” BRAKE & CLUTCH LINERS. CRESSWELLS’ LD., Wellington Works, Bradford. SAFETY FIRST ( Patents ) APPLIANCES “ The most wonderful thing is not the mechanical Com- petency, Safety, and Profit values of Mr. Hanley"s APPLIANCES, but his enormous Confidence in mine officials."" “Mr. Hanley gives the facts free, sends goods on approval, relies on our judgment after proper experiment, and leaves us no business reason (except the small first cost) for hesitation."’ “ Obviously, if we don’t adopt Mr. Hanley’s appliances, we must tolerate the injuries and losses preventable ONLY by these appliances.”—3 Mining Engineers. ' — Lists Free: — A. HANLEY, Thirlmere, Sheffield. CRANES. (Loco & Derrick). Sleepers. Buffer Stops. D. Llewellin Evans 120, BUTE ST,, CARDIFF. PROPRIETOR OF THE Cardiff Brattice Cloth Company, AGENT FOR Nobel's Explosives, Discharged Army Officer, 27, B.Sc., M.I.M.E., certificated colliery manager and surveyor, seeks appoint- ment as MINING ENGINEER or ASSISTANT AGENT, held important positions in the northern coal fields and ironstone mines.—Box 7076, Colliery Guardian Office, 30 & 31, Furnival-street, Holborn, London, E.C. 4. Wanted, Colliery Electrician, to take charge of shift; well up in A.C. and D.C. work, Signals and Telephones. State age, wages required, experience, and particulars of exemption from military service (if any).—Box 7077, Colliery Guardian Office, 30 & 31, Furnival-street, Holborn, London, E.C. 4. Wanted, by large firm of Constructional Engineers, DRAUGHTSMAN, fully experienced in the design of modem coal washing plant, to take entire charge of department.—Box 7035, Colliery Guardian Office, 30 & 31, Furnival-street, Holborn, London, E.C. 4. Brattice Cloth. — Gentleman Wanted with influence amongst colliery managers and proprietors, to sell BRATTICE CLOTH on good commission only.—Address, FAIRCLOUGH & SON'S, Bank-lane, Clayton, near Manchester. Wanted, good Fitter, one accustomed to Siskol and Hardy Coal-cutters preferred. Some knowledge of electrical machinery essential.—Apply, THE OUGHTIBRIDGE SILICA FIRE BRICK CO. LTD., Oughtibridge, nr. Sheffield. Wanted, for duration of war, competent COLLIERY SURVEYOR. Must be over military age, or ineligible for Army.—Apply, stating age, wages required, together with copies of three recent references, to THE BLACK PARK COLLIERY CO. LTD., Chirk, Denbighshire. Re HENRY WARRINGTON & SON LIMITED. HATotice is hereby given that all persons 1 1 having any claims or demands upon or against the Receivers for the Debenture Holders of HENRY WARRINGTON & SON LIMITED, of the Berryhill Collieries and Brickworks, Stoke-on-Trent, are required to send in particulars of their claims and demands to C. E. BULLOCK, Esquire, Chartered Accountant, Albion-street, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent (one of the said Receivers), not later than the 1st day of July, 1918, after which date the said Receivers will proceed to distribute the funds in their hands without providing for payment of any claims of which they shall not then have received notice. Dated the 6th day of June, 1918. PADDOCK & SONS, 3, Pall Mall, Hanley. Solicitors for the said Receivers. Mining rights (about 6,000 acres), Coal, IRONSTONE, etc., etc., in Shropshire and Staffordshire, adjoining well-known collieries. Owner would consider part cash, and interest in mining syndicate.—Apply, Box 7081, Colliery Guardian Office, 30 & 31, Furnival-street, Holborn, London, E.C. 4. FOR SALE. nVTorth of England.—Valuable Royalties 1 V of Ochres, Umbers, Limestone, Fireclays, Ganister, Barytes and Ironstone.—Apply, Box 7082, Colliery Guardian Office, 30 & 31, Furnival- street, Holborn, London, E.C. 4. No agents. fifMl £14,000.—Valuable Coal 0^ * \_J y_Z • South Yorkshire Areas for SALE. Principals > only.—Box 7083, Colliery Guardian Office, 30 & 31, Furnival- street, Holborn, London, E.C. 4. FOR SALE. Qawmill, with water frontage, and adj a- kZy cent to railway station, complete, with first-class machinery, as a going concern. Apply to— T. S. INNES, Prudential-buildings, N e wcastle-on-Tyne.